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Impossible to specify an httpAgent when running on GCP infrastructure
An HTTP agent can be specified in initializeApp()
using AppOptions.httpAgent
.
When running on GCP infrastructure using application default credentials, the SDK will request the internal metadata server at an http:
address, see below:
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-node/blob/581e579460bd809912dbffd5680777dd0c8f1a80/src/app/credential-internal.ts#L261-L270
And naturally, all other API requests during operation of the SDK use the https:
protocol.
This means that it is impossible to provide a native NodeJS http.Agent
or a https.Agent
because it will always fail due to the mix of http:
and https:
requests it will be used for.
This should either be fixed (e.g. don't use the provided agent for the internal metadata server http:
request) or documented.
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